How many calories makes a pound?

Answer 1

3500 cals

Answer 2

1 pound = 9.74351079 × 10(15) calories

Answer 3

3500 calories makes 1 pound

Answer 4

About 3500 calories are equal to a pound, but you burn alot of calories in everyday activitys so you rarely gain that much.

Answer 5

Calories are actually units of energy rather than weight. It is when you consume more calories than your body needs that the calories become stored in your body as fat. 3500 calories more than you need will be converted to 1 lb. of fat in your body and 3500 calories less than you need will cause the 1 lb of fat to be converted to energy.
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Answer 6

If you eat 3,500 calories more than your body needs, you will put on about 1 pound. If you use up 3,500 calories more than you eat, you will lose about 1 pound in weight.

Answer 7

This is a common misconseption. A "calorie" in both the scientific and nutrition communities has NOTHING TO DO WITH WEIGHT. A "calorie" is actually a unit of energy. The term has loosely been used over the past two decades to represent a measure of a foods nutritional value, when in reality, the more calories a food has the better. What needs to be watched is where those calories are comming from, not the overall quantity.

A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. Calorie is French and derives from the Latin calor (heat). In most fields, it has been replaced by the joule, the SI unit of energy. However, it remains in common use for the amount of food energy. The word "Calorie" is often mis-used to mean "energy", for example people speak of "high-calorie foods" when they mean foods high in energy.

Definitions for calorie fall into two classes:

The small calorie or gram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.184 Joules, and exactly 0.001 large calories.
The large calorie or kilogram calorie approximates the energy needed to increase the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 °C. This is about 4.184 kJ, and exactly 1000 small calories.
In scientific contexts, the name "calorie" refers strictly to the gram calorie, and this unit has the symbol cal. SI prefixes are used with this name and symbol, so that the kilogram calorie is known as the "kilocalorie" and has the symbol kcal. In non-scientific contexts the kilocalorie is often referred to as a Calorie (capital "C"), or just a calorie, and it has to be inferred from the context that the small calorie is not intended.

Now the question is:
Why do dietitions care about calories?
The reason is because unburned calories (typically from high glucose (sugar) containing foods) are converted into fat.

Then answer of 3500 calories make a pound is incorrect.
It is one pound of human fat has 3500 calories (of energy) in it.

That is, if you were to burn one pound of human fat, you will be using up 3500 calories:

A calorie is a unit of measurement for energy. Calorie is French and derives from the Latin calor (heat). In most fields, it has been replaced by the joule, the SI unit of energy. However, it remains in common use for the amount of food energy.

Human fat tissue contains about 87% lipids, so that 1 kg of body-fat tissue has roughly the caloric energy of 870 g of pure fat, or 7800 kcal. Therefore one has to create a 7800 kcal deficit between energy intake and use to lose 1 kg of body-fat. (In U.S. customary units, that is about 3500 kcal per pound.)

[2] In other words, if you eat 3,500 kilocalories more than your body needs, you will put on about 1 pound of fat. If you use up 3,500 kilocalories more than you eat, you will lose about 1 pound of fat. These approximations assume that there is no net gain or loss in muscle, which can also be built using food energy, or metabolized as a source of energy. This also assumes that there is a direct relationship between calories of food consumed and that stored in body fat, which is not proven or likely.

So as you can see, calories dont make up a pound.

A pound of human fat is worth 3500 kilocalories in energy.

Answer 8

calories dont have weight or mass as a calorie only a unit for determining how much energy potential is in food

Answer 9

What I do not understand is why you had to ask this on Yahoo Answers, instead of going to google.com, typing in "how many calories+pound".. I do not understand how stupid some people are.....

Answer 10

3500 calories

Answer 11

3500 makes a pound.